单词 | word blindness |
释义 | > as lemmasword blindness word blindness n. [after German Wortblindheit (A. Kussmaul in H. von Ziemssen Handb. der speciellen Pathol. u. Therapie (1877) XII. 174)] Medicine the inability to understand written or printed words when seen, resulting from localized brain damage; = alexia n.; (also, gen.) dyslexia. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > defective or inarticulate speech > [noun] > specific disorders or faults tongue-tiedness1598 plateasm1656 tongue-tying1762 paraphonia1772 lullaby-speech1822 cleft palate1847 paralalia1848 logoneurosis1857 zetacism1860 alogia1864 lallation1864 lambdacism1864 semi-mute1864 heterophemy1875 agrammatism1877 bradyphrasia1877 heterophasia1877 logopathy1877 paragraphia1877 paralexia1877 paraphasia1877 paraphrasia1877 verbigeration1877 recurring utterance1878 word blindness1878 word deafness1878 scanning1887 sigmatism1888 idioglossia1891 staccato utterance1898 word salad1904 palilalia1908 paragrammatism1924 idiolalia1930 dysprosody1947 Broca's aphasia1959 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > impairment of mental powers > inability to understand written words word blindness1878 text-blindness1909 1878 tr. A. Kussmaul in A. H. Buck Ziemssen's Cycl. Pract. Med. XIV. 770 The patients..had not lost the power either of speaking or of writing; they were no longer able, however, although the hearing was perfect, to understand the words which they heard, or, although the sight was perfect, to read the written words which they saw. This morbid inability we will style, in order to have the shortest possible names at our disposition, word-deafness and word-blindness. 1926 Brain 49 120 Lesions that cause acalculia, or impossibility of calculation, are often very large and associated with word-blindness and agraphia. 1960 New Scientist 15 Sept. 738/2 There might be a special category of reading backwardness which could be..termed ‘specific dyslexia’—though the deplorable name of ‘word blindness’ should be avoided. 1967 Brain 90 147 The earlier cases of word blindness and deafness involved extensive cortical lesions in the dominant hemisphere. 2007 Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 6 June 26 The issue of word blindness is particularly close to her heart as her son is severely dyslexic. < as lemmas |
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